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Grammy Award-nominated, multi-platinum artist Halsey Aurora features reimagined versions of the multi- Destroyer’s Dan Bejar initially conceived of Have We The Family Songbook is a tribute to The Haden Triplets’ On Circles serves as the first new music from Caspian follows-up her chart-topping 2017 album Hopeless platinum band’s biggest and most popular songs – all Met as a Y2K album. Bejar assigned frequent producer – Petra, Tanya, and Rachael – American heartland in four years and marks the most organic writing and Fountain Kingdom and its hit singles “Now or Never” of them stripped back (yet soaring) and featuring very and bandmate John Collins the role of layering synth heritage. The album includes four recently unearthed recording sessions in the Massachusetts-based six and “Bad at Love” with her hotly-anticipated third special guests, including Lacey Sturm (ex-Flyleaf), and rhythm sections over demos sung at his kitchen songs by their grandfather, Carl E. Haden, friend to piece’s 15-year history. “I’ve grown weary of reading studio album, Manic. The release is a direct reflection of Scooter Ward (Cold), Adam Gontier (ex-Three Days table while his family was asleep. Bejar soon realized the Carter Family, Porter Wagoner and other country about bands discussing the renewing, rehabilitative the pop star’s bipolar disorder and was written entirely Grace), Spencer Chamberlain (Underoath) and Michael the pre-millennial sonic template was abrasive to icons. The songs – “Who Will You Love,” “Ozark Moon,” properties their most recent [album] has had on while in a manic state. Despite the album’s dark pretext, Barnes (Red). Highlights include their new track, “Far Destroyer’s own, and the idea of a concept was silly “Memories of Will Rogers,” “Grey Mother Dreaming” them,” says guitarist/keyboardist Phillip Jamieson of Halsey uses Manic as a chance to her most ambitious Away,” “Dear Agony,” which just celebrated its 10th anyway – so he abandoned it, simply instructing Collins – were written during the Depression when he was in the mindset the band had going into recording On music yet. Turgid RnB runs up against expansive Disney- year anniversary in September 2019, as well as “So to “Make it sound cool.” That part was easy. But they his 20s Other notable songs include, “Every Time I Circles. “On Circles is not that record.” Not that the like orchestrations, distorted Beach Boys harmonies, Cold” and “Red Cold River.” Founder/frontman Ben also made it dark, occasionally scary (serial killers have Try” (written by the Triplets’ brother, Josh Haden), process Caspian broken – saying that the album’s stadium-sized rockers, and, with “Finally / Beautiful Burnley calls Aurora “a celebration of our incredible replaced poets and painters), and applied a curious Kanye West’s “Say You Will,” and Americana standards lead single, “Flowers of Light,” finds “the intersection Stranger,” a gorgeous and spare ballad on acoustic fans” both old and news. “We’ve always shared a ending (and cool guitars!). What it all means is still up like “Wayfaring Stranger,” “I’ll Fly Away,” “Wildwood between propulsive, relentless energy and a trance guitar. And while Halsey’s not afraid to explore recent unique emotional connection to our music with our in the air – but you’ll enjoy the many listens it’ll take to Flower,” and “Pretty Baby.” The Family Songbook also like sense of reverie. It’s also a hell of a lot of fun to relationships, Manic is a beautiful and bold accounting fans,” he continues. “And this album [pays tribute] to get closer to the “truth.” features contributions from Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz, Doyle play.” Produced by Will Yip (Code Orange, Defeater, of her own emotional well-being – and taking control. those dark times and euphoric ones.” Bramhall II, Don Was, Larry Taylor, and Woody Jackson. Quicksand, Turnstile).

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A person whose words are so potent that they cause Dan Deacon’s most emotionally open and transcendent Frances Quinlan has built an identity for herself When Poliça’s Channy Leaneagh fell off her roof in He’s a man Pitchfork calls “a pioneer” – with a the people and beings around them to vibrate is said record, Mystic Familiar’s eleven kaleidoscopic tracks over the past decade as the lead songwriter and early 2018, leaving her in a brace with limited mobility voice recognized by Rolling Stone as the sound of to have a “silver tongue.” It’s apt, then, that Mackenzie of majestic synth-pop exponentially expand his front-woman of the Philadelphia-based band Hop for months. Yet Poliça’s fourth album, When We resilience. Now, Kirk Windstein, wielder of the sludge Scott—who has spent the 2010s making boundary- sound with unfettered imagination and newfound Along. With a renewed openness to explore different Stay Alive, is not about one debilitating accident: It’s sledgehammer and unmistakable earthmoving bellow pushing pop as TORRES — has chosen to call her new vulnerability. It’s the first album where Deacon presents sounds, Quinlan supplements her typical guitar-based about the redemptive power of rewriting your story in of Crowbar, stomps forward as a solo artist for the very album just that. TORRES’ music has long navigated the his natural singing voice, unprocessed and with only instrumentation with synthesizers, digital beats, harps, order to heal. While half of When We Stay Alive was first time. On a Dream In Motion, the inaugural effort space between the physical and the metaphysical, and minimal accompaniment – a vulnerable shift in a strings, and a wide variety of keyboards. Quinlan is written before the fall, the tracks meld together in a from his eponymously monikered incarnation, the Silver Tongue faces that conflict head-on, fastidiously songbook abundant with characters, metaphors, and a voyaging songwriter. Throughout Likewise, she redemptive whole – enhanced by the heavy synths and Dark Lord of the Southern Riff stretches his creative chronicles the impulses that make up desire — distorted vocals. Mystic Familiar’s lead track, “Become confronts what confounds her in the hopes that she punctuating beats of Poliça co-founder and producer wings as he introduces new emotional depth and sonic wrestling with the highs and lows of what “being in A Mountain” – a stirring, dramatic introduction that will come out on the other side with a better sense Ryan Olson. Those written before the fall relay ideas texture that strengthen, rather than tarnish, the metal love” might mean over heady guitars, enveloping recalls 70s Philip Glass, modern Max Richter, a touch of of what it is to be human. She presents listeners with with a more heightened sense of anxiety and distress. monolith’s career legacy and rightly revered catalog. synths, and a voice whose sensual, skeptical, smoky Liberace, Walt Whitman, and Deacon’s unadulterated a complicated, albeit spirited vision of what it could On the second batch of songs, Leaneagh reevaluates husk recalls indie rock matriarchs like Jenny Toomey vocals – sets the scene with a Zen-like yearning that will mean to truly engage with another person, to give a her past, difficult personal experiences and bring in a and Susanne Vega. This is TORRES at her most inviting leave you instantly enthralled. But don’t worry: You’ll be small piece of oneself over to someone else without sense of insight, strength, and light. and beguiling. dancing your ass off by the time “Sat by a Tree” hits. expectation. THE LUMINEERES WOLF PARADE PET SHOP BOYS THE WOOD BROTHERS JACK BROADBENT III THIN MIND HOT SPOT KINGDOM IN MY HEAD MOONSHINE BLUE DUALTONE SUB POP X2/AWAL HONEY JAR RECORDS CROWS FEET RECORDS

The Lumineers’ new album III is audacious: every Every moment spent gazing at our screens is Hotspot – the new album from legendary electronic/ The Wood Brothers’ new studio album Kingdom In Hailed as “the new master of the slide guitar” by the note, every syllable, and every moment of silence in oversaturated with content, an ever-accelerated news sardonic duo Pet Shop Boys – was mostly written and My Mind represents a reckoning of sorts, examining Montreux Jazz Festival, and “the real thang” by the between is emotionally charged. It’s darker in tone than cycle conditioning our ever-decreasing attention spans. recorded in Berlin and Los Angeles and is the third circumstance, mortality and human nature. The legendary Bootsy Collins, singer-songwriter, Jack previous albums and is presented in three chapters The struggle to stay present, and to foresee a clear, album to be produced and mixed by Stuart Price. material on Kingdom In My Mind homes in on the Broadbent, returns after 3 years with Moonshine Blue, –each one focused on a member of the fictitious sustainable future, feels very real. Wolf Parade address Hotspot features 10 brand new Tennant/Lowe tracks bittersweet beauty that underlies doubt and pain and “Wishing Well.” Growing up, Jack listened to a variety Sparks family, who span three generations in the this phenomenon head-on with Thin Mind, the band’s including single ‘Dreamland’ featuring Years & Years sadness with vivid character studies and unflinching of different artists that influenced the way he produces album’s storyline. III’s concept began while the band fifth full-length and second to be produced by John and new track ‘Burning The Heather - which features self-examination. While the lyrics dig deep, the trio and performs his music, including Radiohead, Robert was writing in the Catskill mountains, where producer Goodmanson (Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Unwound). Suede guitarist-turned-producer, Bernard Butler, on draws from across a broad sonic spectrum to create Johnson, Joni Mitchell, and Davey Graham – and you Simone Felice (The Felice Brothers) works his magic. Thin Mind marks a return to the original power trio of guitar. In Berlin, Pet Shop Boys worked at Hansa – a a set of songs that are transportive and joyful. And, can hear elements of each on both the single and Mixing raw emotional themes with their ear-catching Dan Boeckner, Spencer Krug, and Arlen Thompson. The studio that’s played a role in many pivotal album, seeing as John Wood is one-third of the great Medeski, album. Listening and learning from a wide range of melodies, and expressive vocals, III moves masterly in band’s decision to forge a future-forward sound using including – most famously – David Bowie’s “Berlin” Martin & Wood, Kingdom In My Mind benefits from a artists helped him to create a unique style by mixing artistic directions not yet traveled by the band. “This a myriad of synthesizers – from ‘80s synths and ‘90s trilogy: “We’ve written much of our music over the last harmonic sensibility and an overdriven, buzzy, slightly various genres which led him to develop his own – one collection of songs worked out in a beautiful way,” says MIDI to more modern, kitchen sink instruments – recalls ten years in Berlin… It was an exciting experience to left-of-center production that eludes most “Americana” that subverts modern blues tropes by never shying multi-instrumentalist, Jeremiah Fraites. “I feel with this the sonics of Wolf Parade’s earliest EPs in a move that work on this album in the legendary Hansa studios and acts. It grooves, too… And fans of Levon Helm will find away from his disparate influences and embracing a album we’ve really hit our stride.” seems both ironic and on-brand (but probably both). add a new dimension to our sound.” plenty here to love. Spiritualized-like guitar squalls.

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Drive-By Truckers’ twelfth studio album and first new Everything Else Has Gone Wrong is the eagerly It’s country music, but not as we know it – which begs Few artists are storytellers as deft and disarmingly Son Little’s Aloha blends classic soul and old-school LP in more than three years, The Unraveling, was anticipated follow-up to the British band’s 2014 chart- the question: Have these bad kids of 21st century rock observational as Andy Shauf. The Toronto-based, R&B into a timeless swirl fueled by gritty instrumental recorded at the legendary Sam Phillips Recording topping, Mercury Music Prize nominated fourth album, ‘n’ roll finally grown up on their ninth studio album? Saskatchewan-raised musician’s songs unfold like virtuosity and raw, raspy vocals. While Son Little Service in Memphis, co-founding singer/songwriter/ So Long, See You Tomorrow. “This is an album for Have they made a record their parents could listen to? short fiction: They’re densely-layered with colorful plays nearly every instrument on the album himself, guitarists Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood both spent anyone who’s ever turned to music in a time of need,” Fuck no! The Black Lips new album, Sing In A World characters and a rich emotional depth. On his new he put his songs in the hands of an outside producer, much of the time prior doing battle with deep pools says vocalist/guitarist Jack Steadman. “Music’s the way That’s Falling Apart, ain’t another gaggle of bearded album, The Neon Skyline, he sets a familiar scene of Renaud Letang (Feist, Manu Chao). Fitting, as Aloha of writer’s block. “How do you write about the daily I’m able to truly express myself.” With an innate ear for southern sons fleeing their collective suburban inviting a friend for beers. Despite having written 50 is an exercise in letting go, ceding control, and absurdities when you can’t even wrap your head melody and invention, Bombay Bicycle Club are a very upbringings. There aren’t the usual clichés about songs about the same night, Shauf paired them down surrendering to fate. Recognizing the power of our around them in the first place?,” says Hood. “I think welcome return to the fold just as British guitar music drinking, honkytonks, and heartbreak. Here Black Lips to eleven interconnected tracks that follow a simple own self-destructive tendencies is a recurring theme our response was to focus at the core emotional level. makes a timely renaissance – their distorted, elastic are skidding onto the asphalt in a shower of sparks, plot: The narrator goes to his neighborhood dive, finds on Aloha. Little mourns the suicide of a beloved uncle More heart and less cerebral perhaps.” The songs that sonics – still reminiscent of Steve Reich, The Notwist, they roll on with an unapologetic southern-fried out his ex is back in town, and she eventually shows on “Suffer,” using addiction and mental illness as a eventually emerged are among DBT’s most direct and and Bright Eyes – remain firmly intact. Produced by twang, pacing the beast, every now and then dropping up. While its overarching narrative is riveting, the real lens to explore forgiveness and empathy on “O Clever pointedly provocative, tackling the myriad horrors of John Congleton (St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten, War a psycho howl into the rubber room madness lurking thrill of the album comes from how Shauf finds the One,” and meditates on the dangers of succumbing to our new normal through sincere emotion and unbridled on Drugs). underneath the truckstop fireworks. Their best record humanity and humor in a typical night out and the passion at the expense of reason on “Belladonna.” heart. The Unraveling is a record for these times. since the aughts. ashes of a past relationship. CHELSEA CUTLER VARIOUS OH WONDER MIKE POSNER HOW TO BE HUMAN CATS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE MOTION PICTURE NO ONE ELSE CAN WEAR YOUR CROWN KEEP GOING REPUBLIC REPUBLIC REPUBLIC ISLAND

Constantly-relatable lyrics and handcrafted lo-fi soundscapes Whether you’re a glutton for punishment, an Oh Wonder are one of the UK’s best-kept secrets. As Grammy-nominated, worldwide multi-platinum have established Chelsea Cutler as a quiet, yet disruptive enthusiastic taker of psychedelic drugs, introverted, What started with the relatively modest ambition of selling singer-songwriter-producer Mike Posner (“I force for popular music. Within two short years, the singer, or just a fan of musicals, then Cats: Highlights From uploading a track a month on Soundcloud quickly Took A Pill In Ibiza,” “Cooler Than Me”) continues on his songwriter and producer went from bedroom-constructed The Motion Picture Soundtrack is the album you’ve transformed into two albums and two tours, more than Walk Across America (Mike set out on a 3,000-mile hike Soundcloud uploads to 750 million-plus cumulative streams, been waiting for! Cats: Highlights From The Motion one million albums sold. The couple’s hotly anticipated on April 15th from Asbury Park, New Jersey, making his and acclaim from Billboard, Complex, and PAPER, a string of Picture Soundtrack features Andrew Lloyd Webber’s third album, No One Else Can Wear Your Crown, was way to Venice Beach, California), he commemorates independent releases, and two sold-out nationwide tours. iconic songs and music, including “Memory” sung by written and self-produced in Oh Wonder’s own home crossing the California state line by dropping the new How To Be Human, is the premier showcase for this around- Jennifer Hudson and Francesca Hayward, and Taylor studio before being co-mixed with Cenzo Townshend mixtape, Keep Going – which begins with a message the-way girl from Connecticut, showcasing her bouncy Swift’s collaboration with Lloyd Webber, “Beautiful (Bat For Lashes, Christine & The Queens, Jungle). No from Posner that encourages the listener to enjoy all pop patois and sad-girl confessionals. Heart always on her Ghosts.” As you well know, said track is performed by One Else Can Wear Your Crown has an overriding 52-minutes without interruption. Wishful thinking? sleeve, Cutler even includes songs she wrote on her phone Francesca Hayward in the film and by Swift in the film’s message of self-acceptance, empowerment and joy Perhaps – but if Posner can stick to his goal despite because she knows when the expression of raw emotions end credits – and both versions are featured here. – its songs addressing modern romance (and break- a snakebite-related 3-week sabbatical (seriously), then best serves her well-crafted songs. It’s that fearlessness that Other highlights include the classic “Jellicle Songs for ups), self-acceptance, life, death, healing, and the maybe you can find a bit of focus as well. Besides, it’s has made her an underground phenomenon – one that will Jellicle Cats,” Jason Derulo’s “The Rum Tum Tugger,” simple joy of harmony. Or, to paraphrase, Oh Wonder worth it. Logic, Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, and Talib soon be impossible to ignore. and “Macavity” performed by Swift and Idris Elba. will be singing “Hallelujah” whether you like it or not. Kweli, Diddy, and Steven Tyler are among the guests.

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Canadian artist Claire Boucher – aka Grimes – follows- Puss N Boots – the charming trio featuring Norah The Ballroom Thieves have consistently and skillfully With earthy three-part harmonies and songwriting as Ordinary Man is Ozzy Osbourne’s his first solo album up 2015’s Art Angels with her highly-anticipated fifth Jones, Sasha Dobson, and Catherine Popper – are back crossed genres, joining artists like CAAMP, Langhorne Slim provocative as it is honest, The Lone Bellow creates in almost 10 years. Featuring the songs “Under The studio album, Miss Anthropocene. An amalgamation with their second full-length album, Sister – a fetching and Shakey Graves to bridge the gap between folk, rock, sparks that make a stranger’s life matter or bring our Graveyard,” and “Straight To Hell” – recorded with Guns of three albums Grimes recorded over the past three collection of originals written by the band members and soul. With Unlovely the trio took it a step further and sense of childlike wonder roaring back. On Half Moon N’ Roses guitarist Slash – the album features producer years, Miss Anthropocene is based on a neologism collectively and individually, mixed with loving covers grew their instrumental arsenal, amplifying their signature Light, the trio mix light and dark to muster a complex Andrew Watt on guitars, Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses) commonly used in scientific circles (sounds like of songs by Tom Petty (“Angel Dream”) and Paul energy and eccentricity. Incorporating musical styles that ode to memory, a call for hope, and an exercise in on bass and Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) on somebody has been hanging out with an eccentric Westerberg (“It’s A Wonderful Lie”). Jones, Dobson, range from Motown to classic rock and metal, Unlovely empathy. Anchored in the acoustic storytelling that drums. Beyond the core band, Ordinary Man features techno-billionaire). Miss Anthropocene refers to and Popper each take turns delivering lead vocals maintains the recognizable, nostalgia-tinged sound of first so endeared the band to fans and critics, Half Moon a who’s-who of guest collaborators including Elton both the misanthrope’s loathing of humanity and the and also pick up multiple instruments throughout the The Ballroom Thieves’ previous outputs while pushing a Light also takes more chances, experimenting with John, Post Malone, and Tom Morello. What started out Anthropocene era in which our planet is dominated album trading off on guitar, bass, and drums. “This heightened brashness – unafraid to make several sharp textures and instrumental fillips to create a full-bodied as a feature on a Post Malone track quickly became by human activity. Glad to know that, even in “The band has always been a great adventure,” says Jones. turns within one song. With subject matters ranging from music experience. The band expertly traverses several a full-fledged album – one that Ozzy didn’t think he Future,” puns reign supreme. The 10-track collection is “Sasha and Cat’s fearlessness eggs me on to try new female empowerment and the destruction of patriarchy, moods throughout, going from gentle, soothing lows had in him (especially in light of his recent Parkinson’s introduced by the breathy and beat driven “Violence,” things, be it playing guitar, drums, writing a new way to love in a committed relationship, to their fury about to enormous, sweeping highs, and their musicianship diagnosis). The result is one of the most earnest – and the atmospheric “So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth,” or wearing an elf costume on stage.” Let’s hope this is the current state of American leadership, Unlovely is the shines through in each and every track. no less rocking – albums of Ozzy’s career. and features guest appearances by 潘PAN and i_o. indicative of a forthcoming tour. distillation of the band’s personal and political passions.

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“What happened with White Ladder involved more Over the last decade, the honesty inherit in John Moreland’s Produced by the great Ethan Johns (Paul McCartney, Indie pop Captain and Tennille, Tennis (husband and Comedian Brian Posehn has friends in metal places. than music,” says David Gray. “It was a sort of heart music has stunned and stung. But there has always been Ray LaMontagne, Laura Marling), In This Town You’re wife duo Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore), wrote their The Uncle Nick star has corralled a murderer’s row of and soul moment of total surrender for everybody far more to Moreland than sad songs. In addition to his Owned is singer-songwriter Robert Vincent at his most new album Swimmer on their sailboat traveling around metal and rock help for his new metal album Grandpa involved, for me and the audience… It doesn’t get any world-weary candor, Moreland’s music smolders with contemporary, and with a bigger scope of vision than Baja California, Mexico and in their recording studio Metal. Produced by Jay Ruston (Anthrax), the album better than that.” White Ladder’s success spawned a gentle wisdom, flashes of wit, joy, and compassion. LP5, ever before. A Liverpool native, Vincent observes life they built in Denver. Swimmer finds Tennis elevating its features a massive list of guest collaborators, including new wave of singer-songwriters in an acoustic boom Moreland’s latest, pushes everything further: The album’s in his hometown – as well as the current, chaotic state songwriting via experiments in instrumentation, time Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump, Dokken‘s Jeff Pilson, that resonates to this day, a soul-baring lineage that sonic experimentations capture an artist whose confidence of the world – with keen eyes. Faith, and lack thereof, changes, and a greater focus on storytelling. According “Weird” Al Yankovic, Dethklok‘s Brendon Small, can be directly traced from Gray to the all-conquering has grown, without abandoning his hearty roots rock is one of the central themes of the record, which was to Moore, the first single, “Runner,” (and, with that, the Anthrax’s Scott Ian, Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil, and Ed Sheeran – who has been known to cover “This Year’s foundation and lyrics-first approach Moreland’s work record straight to 16-track tape, employing minimal album) “began as a guitar riff Patrick recorded while Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor (among many others). Grandpa Love” live. Fellow world-beating British superstar demands. There is no grand or alarming stylistic departure overdubs – but one shouldn’t mistake such speed for we were living off grid, anchored in a fisherman’s cove Metal not only features a thundering death metal take Adele is also an admirer, citing “This Year’s Love” as here – rather additional textures and layers that add a lack of care: Vincent’s most ambitious work to date, called San Juanico. The only instruments we had on on A-ha‘s iconic “Take on Me, ” but a searing take on one of her all-time favorite break-up songs. This 20th greater depth to Moreland’s heretofore sparse recordings, the 9-minute-long “The End Of The War,” wastes not board were an acoustic guitar and a drum sequencer… “The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)”. “I honestly feel anniversary edition of White Ladder has been freshly undoubtedly enhanced by the considerable production one second. “There’s a life” Vincent sings, “at the end The demo Patrick recorded that day outlined our that every good song would be better if it were heavy remastered and includes previously unreleased rarities, skills of Centro-Matic’s Matt Pence (Think Daniel Lanois of the war.” Let’s bloody well hope so. future, the first contours of our next record.” metal,” says Posehn – and we don’t disagree. B-sides and demos. meets Springsteen). Moreland is an artist you need to know. SPANISH LOVE SONGS SPANISH LOVE SONGS BRAVE FACES EVERYONE BRAVE FACES EVERYONE PURE NOISE RECORDS PURE NOISE RECORDS

Steeped in the same detail-rich storytelling of Bruce Steeped in the same detail-rich storytelling of Bruce Springsteen, The Menzingers and Manchester Orchestra Springsteen, The Menzingers and Manchester Orchestra and filtered through the band’s sweat-soaked punk fervor, and filtered through the band’s sweat-soaked punk fervor, the songs on Spanish Love Songs’ third album, Brave the songs on Spanish Love Songs’ third album, Brave Faces Everyone, represents the situations singer Dylan Faces Everyone, represents the situations singer Dylan Slocum and his bandmates experienced during 30-odd Slocum and his bandmates experienced during 30-odd weeks of rigorous touring their last album, Schmaltz. weeks of rigorous touring their last album, Schmaltz. These are stories set in small-town America and anxious These are stories set in small-town America and anxious urban jungles alike – heartbreaking tales of addiction, urban jungles alike – heartbreaking tales of addiction, depression, debt and death juxtaposed alongside depression, debt and death juxtaposed alongside looming societal bogeys like mass shootings, the opioid looming societal bogeys like mass shootings, the opioid epidemic and climate change. They’re all at once personal epidemic and climate change. They’re all at once personal vignettes and universal truths of life in the 2010s. Besides, vignettes and universal truths of life in the 2010s. Besides, as Slocum sings in “Beachfront Property”: “Every city’s as Slocum sings in “Beachfront Property”: “Every city’s the same / Doom and gloom under different names.” the same / Doom and gloom under different names.”

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